Xfce
Table of Contents
1. Thunar
1.1. Context Menu
Turning off action to permanently delete files and folders in the context menu, using the system’s trash can instead
Thunar > Edit > Preferences > Behavior > Context Menu
1.2. Accessing remotes with Thunar
gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse packages enable Thunar remote access with SSH using ssh://
2. xcape
The xcape package can set the modkey to act as another keybinding
Example with xfce4-popup-whiskermenu to use Alt+F1
xcape -e 'Super_L=Alt_L|F1'
With xcape the Super modifier key act as Alt+F1 when pressed and released on its own, autostart the command to enable this on login
3. Automatic login
Edit /etc/lightdm/lghtdm.conf under [Seat:*]
autologin-user=alan autologin-user-timeout=0
4. Screen tearing
5. Stopping the bell
Add xset b off command to autostart
6. The desktop file FILE is in an insecure location and not marked as executable
- https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=16407
- https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=16357
- notes:desktop-entries
Modifying the desktop file will trigger the warning as it changes the file checksum.
Check if a particular desktop file has the metadata
xfce-exe-checksum containing its own checksum.
gio info FILE
To mark every desktop files in the current directory as trusted.
for x in *.desktop; do gio set -t string "$x" metadata::xfce-exe-checksum "$(sha256sum "$x" | awk '{print $1}')"; done